Richard Tietjen writes: >Is the absence of MAN on the basedisk installation a bug that I >should attempt to report formally?
I assume the idea is that the documentation will be sufficient to get you through to the stage of installing the man package without having to read any man pages. >I also seek clarification on the expert installation's >recommendations on disk partitioning. There are something like 10 >directories off the root. The web page makes no mention of /tmp, >/boot, etc. Should I just infer that the recommended procedure is >one partition for each of those directories, plus one for /usr/local? >That seems like a lot of partitions. At home, I have separate partitions for /, /var, /usr, /home and /usr/local. At work, the same, only no separate /usr/local partition. Some people seem to like to put /tmp on a separate partition. Anything else is probably unnecessary unless you have unusual requirements; there does seem to be a range of opinions on the subject. A friend with a larger (non-Debian) system has four home partitions, /home_[1-4], you might want to think about something like that if you have a lot of users. OTOH my previous system had a single huge partition for everything, and that didn't cause any problems at all; though large partitions do take longer to check when fsck has a look at them. Don't forget about swap space. ttfn/rjk
